Paul Trible

Paul Seward Trible Jr. (29 December 1946-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-VA 1) from 3 January 1977 to 3 January 1983 (succeeding Thomas N. Downing and preceding Herbert H. Bateman) and a US Senator from Virginia from 3 January 1983 to 3 January 1989 (succeeding Harry F. Byrd Jr. and preceding Chuck Robb).

Biography
Paul Trible was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1946, and he worked as a law clerk for a federal judge from 1971 to 1972 and as an Assistant US Attorney from 1972 to 1974. In 1973, he was elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Essex County, serving from 1974 to 1976. Trible went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 and in the US Senate from 1983 to 1989, serving as a Republican. In 1989, he narrowly lost the GOP nomination for Governor, and he served as president of Christopher Newport University from 1996 and into the 21st century.